Stefan Fölster
Swedish economist and author / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stefan Fölster (born 23 June 1959) is a Swedish economist and author. He is the president of the Swedish Reform Institute and an associate professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
Stefan Fölster | |
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Born | Germany |
Nationality | Swedish, German |
Alma mater | University of Oxford (D Phil); Harvard University (MA); UCLA (BA) |
Literary movement | New institutional economics |
Notable work | The Public Wealth of Nations |
Fölster is the author and co-author of several books on economic reform,[1] including Robotrevolutionen,[2] which looks at the winners and losers in the digital age, and Renaissance of Reforms,[3] that was based on an analysis of 109 governments that completed their term of power in OECD countries between the mid-1990s and 2012. With Dag Detter, Fölster wrote The Public Wealth of Nations: How Management of Public Assets Can Boost or Bust Economic Growth (Palgrave, 2015),[4] included in The Economist — Books of the Year 2015[5] and the Financial Times, FT's Best Books of the Year 2015.[6]